BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 95, 26 August 1913, Page 5

BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

''S URPASS IMAGINATION.'' [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.} London, August 25. Pierre Loti, a member of the FrenCj Academy, writing to the Daily Tele graph, declares that the Bulgarian: are making Thrace a desert surpassing in abomination everything told or im igined. The village of Haouza, whici may bo regarded as an example o Hundreds of others, is a heap of nuns fhe Turkish prisoners and wounde .vere compelled to smash sculpture'

marbles in the mosques with sledge .lammers while the Bulgarians haras ied them with bayonets. Every col umn in the cemetery was broken am che dead were exposed. The Bulgar ans amused themselves by defiling th< scattered bones and casting tlie vio lated bodies of women and childrei into a well. Only 40 out of 1000 intabiiants escaped unmassacred las night. 'the. Bulgarian occupation of Adria nople was terrible. The Greeks wer tied four and four together and throwi into the river. The Bulgarians pile; che loot on carts and were about t

itart at daybreak, when they were in terrupted by the unexpected arrival o' Hie Turks. Before quitting the Bulgarians threw into the wells the lev last prisoners and % returned to cap ture Rechid Bey. Fund's sou tore bo. his eyes from their- orbits and severei •lis arms. Four thousand Turkish pri

soners were herded on an island in tie river, in order that they might die o hunger. Lo.ti saw trees which habeen despoiled of their baric, which tli famished prisoners had devoured, Th' Bulgarians, a fortnight after this tor ture, cut the throats of those stil' alive.

TURKEY'S DETERMINATION THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Constantinople, August 25. The Porte, in seeking a direct ar rangement with Bulgaria, declare flint she is determined to retain Adrianople and Kirkkillisse, and offerf r, oneessions in other directions. A prompt solution is considered imperative owing to the burden of maintaining 300,000 in Thrace. Athensj August 25. One hundred and twenty-eight thousand Greeks, Turks, Jews, and Bulgarians have taken refuge in Greek territory, and the numbers are daily increasing, Xanthe has been transferred to the Bulgarians. The majority of the- inhabitants fled.